Nafe (Kwamera)

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Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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(Bislama) tra skwisim mi.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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je dorme

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phrase je plante des choux des iles,

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[jaku jaku] n.

Scientific name: Portulaca oleracea, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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Scientific name: Todirhamphus chloris, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: People use this plant for firewood

Scientific name: Hedycarya dorstenioides, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: Fresh vine is collected and used to tie parts of the house together. Can drink water from stem. Fruits-seed used as necklace especially for kastom dance.

Scientific name: Entada phaseoloides, Speaker: Johnson Noar

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: To treat ciguatera disease (fish toxin), boil a double handful of the male flower, in 2 liter water, 10-15 min. Drink all at once warm. Drink one pot daily for 2 days. Leaves and flowers to feed pigs. Fruit edible. Slice the green fruit and boil it to make soup or fry it in oil and make a salad. Ripe fruit to make jam.

Scientific name: Carica papaya, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

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Example: If a person comes to your garden and tries to spoil it with a special leaf by rubbing it on his foot and walking around or rubbbing it on a stick and tossing it into a garden, take 8 branches of this species (MB 5045) and put 2 in each corner of a new garden. If branches are placed when the garden is planted, it will not be spoiled by this black magic. To stop having children chew 4 pieces of young stem 2 in. long. 2 times daily for one week and the woman will no longer have children.

Scientific name: Desmodium incanum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

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Example: To get strength back in your body, take a double handful of leaves in 1/2 of 1.5 L bottle, drink all at once. Children take the seeds of this plant and put them together in a ball to play with.

Scientific name: Hanslia ormocarpoides, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

Example: Photo by Richard Ling, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Epinephelus fasciatus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Epinephelus areolatus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

[kwanokuma] n.

Example: No use disclosed.

Scientific name: Melastoma malabathricum, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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n roche

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Example: Only used in soup. The origin of this variety is thought to be Fiji, and the local name means “From Fiji”

Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

n gibbeuse croissant (phase de lune)

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Scientific name: Mangifera indica, Speaker: Johnson Noar

[mɨriaki]

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[napre:rɨp] n.

Example: Ecological: This plant, which grows near streams, is known to hold water during the dry season. If the plant is harvested, then it is known that the stream will not continue to run. Thus, precaution is taken to keep this plant in good health.

Scientific name: Elatostema macrophyllum, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n lait

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Scientific name: Ficus, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: Timber. Birds are known to eat this fruit so people can hunt near the tree. Unspecified medicine.

Scientific name: Myristica fatua, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: This plant is used to reduce the pain of toothache. Take the stem and peel it, remove the bark and place the bark against a sore tooth. Keep it is place, until the person feels better. Can use this treatment 2-3 times. It is said to "take the pain away." The tooth may rot away naturally, but this is good for the pain that accompanies toothache. The dried fruits and seeds of the plant can be mixed with pig food, such as coconut, and when the female pigs eat it, they will not have piglets. This is said to be used when a person has too many pigs.

Scientific name: Cyrtandra cymosa, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: The leaves of this plant are warmed over a fire and put warm on the legs of a person who is cold or has a headache, such as from a fever that comes with the flu. See 3076 for additional comments on this technique.

Scientific name: Acalypha wilkesiana, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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[nijer] n.

Example: Wood is strong and good to make houses with, particuarly house posts. Also good for firewood.

Scientific name: Casuarina equisetifolia, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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n plaine de cendres volcaniques

Example: see more on Youtube

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Example: Use stem to build roof rafters. Before people had matches, this plant was used to light fires by rubbing one stem of this against another piece of the same tree.

Scientific name: Melochia odorata, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood.

Scientific name: Melochia odorata, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Terminalia catappa, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: When a person becomes the chief, he embodies this tree, as this tree is considered the chief of all plants and always helps the community.

Scientific name: Ficus glandifera, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: Stem for house building. Young leaves are very strong and used as plates during large kastom ceremonies. Sap can be used to cover sores from flies in order to protect it. Stem good for firewood as does not give much smoke--does not bother eyes as much as other wood.

Scientific name: Macaranga tanarius, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Scientific name: Davallia sessilifolia, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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[nukunene] n.

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[njuri ne nipuka] n.

Example: This plant is used by dogs who have an upset stomach. They go to eat this grass and then their stomachs feel better. Pigs feed on this grass.

Scientific name: Eleusine indica, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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n moustache

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Example: Leaves used in cooking to flavor soup. To cure sore known as "yaush" that is the size of a 50 vatu coin or larger, take 2-3 branches, collect leaves, put in pot, and warm. Wash the sore 3x day wash for 1-2 weeks. This disease is caused by flies and mosquitos. Yaush is the English name. Mosquito or fly bites the person, passes worm similar to filariasis, then a boil erupts and scratch it becomes big sore. Dry leaves and flowers, put in tin, and light it up to keep mosquitoes away. The smoke from this burning plant chases away mosquitoes like a coil.

Scientific name: Ocimum, Speaker: Johnson Noar

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Example: Fruits used to feed hens to increase fertility -- mix seed with dry coconut and give to hen to increase eggs.

Scientific name: Phyllanthus ciccoides, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n la premiere quartier, la derniere quartier (phases de lune)

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Example: Photo by tonydiver / iNaturalist, License: CC-BY-NC via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Tridacna squamosa via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

Example: Photo by Dr. Dwayne Meadows / NOAA, License: Public Domain via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Diagramma pictum via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by FAO / Fishbase, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Lethrinus erythracanthus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by Erik Schlogl / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Acanthurus lineatus, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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(Bislama) sarat

Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: Very small, not ready to eat or for any other use

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Example: Photo by tonydiver / iNaturalist, License: CC-BY-NC via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Chromodoris lochi via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Acanthocybium solandri via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n mes lèvres

Speaker: Martial wahe

Example: Photo by Ian Shaw / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Pterocaesio tile via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n ma peau

Speaker: Martial wahe

prendre soin

Example: take a care of something life tdon’t make die for example baby dog

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by Jeffrey T. Williams / Smithsonian Institution, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Carangoides chrysophrys via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe